Milestones, Sep. 19, 1949

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Married. Dr. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, 67, co-developer and financial brainpower of flourishing Technicolor, Inc. (1948 net profit, $1,775,834); and Eleanore ("Glorify Yourself") King, 38, syndicated columnist for King Features; both* for the second time; in Los Angeles.

Marriage Revealed. Will L. Clayton, 69, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945-47) and longtime chairman of the Houston firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest cotton brokers; and Susan Vaughan Clayton, sixtyish, who had divorced him last May after 47 years of marriage; on Aug. 6; in Jasper, Alta.

Died. William P. Odom, 30, globe-girdling veteran flyer; in an airplane crash (his F51 Mustang went out of control at Cleveland's National Air Races); in Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record.

Died. Wiley Blount Rutledge, 55, associate justice of the Supreme Court since 1943; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in York Village, Me. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. José Clemente Orozco, 65, one of the Big Three (with Rivera and Siqueiros) of Mexican art; after a heart attack; in Mexico City. In his youth, a firecracker blew off his left hand and seriously damaged his sight, but intense, contentious "El Abrojo" (the spiny cactus) managed to win fame as a mural painter.

Died. George Washington Mitchell, 70, Negro doorman at the U.S. embassy in Paris. An embassy landmark for quarter of a century, Mitchell went to Europe more than 50 years ago with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, stayed on to become known to thousands of traveling Americans and visiting statesmen.

Died. Henry Thacker Burleigh, 82, Negro baritone who composed (or arranged) more than 50 spirituals (Deep River; Go Down, Moses) and some 200 songs, acquainted Antonin Dvorak with Negro folk music that became thematic material for his symphony From the New World; in Stamford, Conn.

Died. Richard Strauss, 85, famed composer (Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Till Eulenspiegel); in Garmisch-Partenkirch-en, Germany (see Music).